Ethnic Native Groups in Panamá, Part I
The Guna Yala´s, from San Blas, Darién, Republic of Panamá

One of the best things about moving to Panama is that I have met and I am now friends with people who I would have been likely to even meet at a coffee shop back in Toronto. My group of amigos range from 30 years to 65+ years in age and come from all walks of life and corners of the earth. In the last few months a group of these "unlikely's" as I would call them got together with a common interest and goal of completing a series of Triathlons in Panama. It really happened at a...
About two and a half weeks ago a stray dog got locked in our landlady’s garage. She howled all night but we thought that our landlady was just keeping the dog for a friend. It wasn't until the next morning, when we asked if we could walk the dog, we realized that she had no idea that a dog was trapped in her garage. She even walked the neighborhood to find the source of the unhappy dog howls.
At that point, she was freed and she became our compound dog. We live in...